peterl
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Post by peterl on Jun 13, 2022 17:15:24 GMT
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Post by mattbewilson on Jun 13, 2022 17:51:50 GMT
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peterl
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Congratulations President Trump
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Post by peterl on Jun 13, 2022 17:53:37 GMT
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johnloony
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Post by johnloony on Jun 14, 2022 1:32:12 GMT
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Georg Ebner
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Post by Georg Ebner on Jun 14, 2022 3:37:03 GMT
Comparison of duels 2017+2022 (thankfully taken from LeMonde):  |
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andrea
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Post by andrea on Jun 14, 2022 6:20:49 GMT
Anne de Montmorency was a man. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 14, 2022 9:52:35 GMT
Anne de Montmorency was a man. Now he knows how you feel  |
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johnloony
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Post by johnloony on Jun 14, 2022 11:35:08 GMT
Anne de Montmorency was a man. Yes I know he was. The beard in the portrait was a bit of a clue. |
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Jun 14, 2022 12:46:27 GMT
Anne de Montmorency was a man. Yes I know he was. The beard in the portrait was a bit of a clue.
Only because it was before plastic surgery 'lifts'.
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Post by mattbewilson on Jun 14, 2022 12:55:33 GMT
Ensemble candidate has dropped out of their race
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Post by minionofmidas on Jun 14, 2022 15:28:46 GMT
Ensemble candidate has dropped out of their race This is one element of French election law that I find seriously weird. That you can just cancel a runoff like that. |
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Post by ilerda on Jun 14, 2022 15:32:31 GMT
It would be more democratic for the next placed candidate to take the place in the run-off if the runner up doesn't want to do it. Then at least people get a choice.
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Post by neilm on Jun 14, 2022 18:05:03 GMT
It's a really nice place. Posh but not ridiculous, with some decent bars and restaurants. I've been on a couple of day trips from Cranfield, once with a colleague who insisted on calling it L2K after he'd seen a pilot write it down like that. |
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Post by neilm on Jun 14, 2022 18:19:28 GMT
Anne de Montmorency was a man. Yes I know he was. The beard in the portrait was a bit of a clue. So why the 'but' in your original post? |
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Post by mattbewilson on Jun 14, 2022 21:44:12 GMT
Some more withdrawals
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Post by minionofmidas on Jun 15, 2022 4:20:52 GMT
Bourouaha would have faced a disso PCF candidate, also of Arabic background.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Jun 15, 2022 4:52:27 GMT
Anne de Montmorency was a man. Montmorency was a dog. |
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johnloony
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Post by johnloony on Jun 15, 2022 8:47:22 GMT
Yes I know he was. The beard in the portrait was a bit of a clue. So why the 'but' in your original post? Because it is an interesting fact that there was a Chief Minister in the 16th century who had a first name which is usually a woman’s name. For example, it wouldn’t have been interesting if I had written “France has had two woman prime ministers, but it also used to have a prime minister called Lionel Something”. The fact that I already knew that Anne Somebody was a man was already obvious, because I described Edith Cresson and Elisabeth Borne as the first and second women prime ministers, rather than the second and third (quite apart from the fact that he was obviously a man because of the portrait and the information on the Wikipedia page. Therefore, logically, you should not be asking me why I wrote “but”. You should be asking andrea why he told me that Anne Somebody was a man, even though I already knew. |
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Post by relique on Jun 15, 2022 9:32:41 GMT
A bit of news that should be quite independent from the elections but that some find illuminating of the messages the government has to its electorate :
They are always looked at in the news media: the subjects of the philosophy exam of the Bac that is held today:
- are artistic practices transforming the World ?
- Is it for the State to decide what is fair ?
- Does freedom consists in not obeying to anyone ?
- Is it just to defend one's rights by all means ?
And two extracts from Books I didn't read yet. One from Diderot's encyclopédie on human testimonies, errors, prejudice, and trust of those testimonies. Another from an Essay by Cournot on scientific proof
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Post by mattbewilson on Jun 15, 2022 12:46:20 GMT
Two most recent announcements on withdrawals
NUPES pull candidate to avoid RN victory while a LREM candidate refuses to withdraw and the presidential majority pull their support from his candidacy
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